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Posted on August 20, 2020December 13, 2020 by Aoife

S2 E10 Filth and Faeces: Beckett, ‘More Pricks than Kicks’ (1934)

A riotous, whirling, silly read that hides it’s rudeness with classical allusions and puns. The blasphemous, punning and lewd title earned it’s ban but there was a profusion of filth within.

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Categories20th century, Blog, Episode, Ireland, Podcast TagsDr Lloyd (Maedbh) Heuston, Dublin, Libel, Modernism, Samuel Beckett

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